Alex Jones is hawking pro-Trump children's book that indoctrinates them to white nationalism

[demmiblue]

Source: Media Matters

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is selling a “limited edition” of a children’s book that depicts President Donald Trump as a cartoon bunny named Thump. The book promotes white nationalist imagery and makes light of the video of Trump admitting to sexually assaulting women and the national outrage that followed.

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On one page that Jones showed, the text read, “Thump found friends in strange places and in all shapes and sizes. Such as the frogs that croaked ‘KEK!’ They were full of surprises!”



The line is a reference to Pepe the Frog, an originally innocuous cartoon that was transformed into a talisman for white nationalism during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The book also references a video released in October 2016 that showed Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women. Thump reads, “Thump was caught talking of grabbing all things pusillanimous. Protesters even made pink hats: their ire was unanimous.”



Although pusillanimous is a synonym for cowardly, it’s a reference to Trump saying that he grabbed women “by the pussy.”

Read more: https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/01/04/alex-jones-hawking-pro-trump-children-s-book-indoctrinates-them-white-nationalism/218970

[samnsara]

1. exposing children to this is child abuse

[JDC]

2. KEK is a 4Chan thing. These really are shit.

[DetlefK]

3. The word "Kek" has an interesting history:

First it was the korean version of "lol" among gamers.

Then online-trolls adopted it. You know, the kind of people who say offensive things and then laugh because they made you angry.

And from there it was adopted by the Alt-Right as a kind of counter-culture battle-cry.

[D_Master81]

4. Is that a cartoon bunny Mitch McConnell?

it says "majority leader hides in his shell" mocking the fact people call him the turtle. haha you cant make this crap up.

[jmowreader]

5. It's a cartoon turtle Mitch McConnell